Running-gear for vehicles



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B. H. BOOTH;

RUNNING GEAR FUR VEHICLES.

No. 377,666. I Patented Feb. 75-1888.

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EBENEZER H. BOOTH, OF KIRKWOOD, NEW YORK.

RUNNING-GEAR FOR VEHICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 377,666, dated February 7, 1888.

7 Application filed July 7, 1887. Serial No. 243,668. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EBENEZER H. BOOTH, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Kirkwood, in the county of Broome and State ofNew York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Running-Gear for Vehicles; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of by nuts below said strap or plate.

this specification.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representatio of this invention, and is a perspective view. Fig. 2 is a detail and a perspective view. Fig. 3 is a detail and a vertical section. Figs. 4 and 5 are details.

The invention relates to improvements in running-gear for vehicles; and it consists in the construction and novel combination of parts, as hereinafter set forth.

"Referring to the drawings by letter, A A designate the axles, and B the reach connecting the axles.

G O are springs, there being one attached on each side of each axle.- The reach is connected to the rear axle by a clip that hugs the center of said axle and has its legs passing through openings in the reach, the legs being tapped below the, reach and engaged by suitable nuts.

center of the axle, and the neck of which is provided with a circumferential shoulder, e, from which a pin stands upward and pivots in an opening in the reach-strap. The legs of the clip are threaded at their ends and pass through openings in the cross strap or plate f of a T-shaped pivotal piece, F, and are secured The stem of the pivotal piece F turns in an opening or socket in the yoke G, the front leg of which passes through an opening in the reach-strap, near its front end, the rear leg passing through an opening in the reach and strap near their junction. The pieces E and F are thus firmly bound together, forming both a clip and kingbolt for the front axle without weakening the latter.

The springs and axles are connected by lugbars, the front ones designated by H and the rear ones by I. The lug-bars H are provided each on its rear end with afoot-plate, h, and on its front end with the double-perforated lugs h, as shown, for the attachment of the thills in the ordinary manner. In all other respects the front and rear lug-bars are similar. Each lug-bar has made centrally upon its lower surface a recess, J, which rests upon the upper surfaceof the squared portion of the axle, near one end thereof.

jj are bolts that pass through openings in the lug-bar on each side of the recess J and through corresponding openings in a clipplate, j, below, and engage nuts below said plate.

j is a solid pin on the lug-bar in the recess J, which enters a corresponding socket in the axle and prevents the lug-bar from slipping.

Each lug-bar has depending from its lower surface, at equal distances from the recess J and on each side thereof, the pairs of similar perforated lugs, K K. Between each pair of lugs K is the eye of a swinging shackle, L, the pivotal bolt Z of the shackle passing through the eye and through the perforation in the lugs.

The arms M of the shackle are perforated at their ends and have a bolt, m, passed through and secured on the outside of one arm by a bination, with the axle, the shackles L, and

the pivoted bolts Z, of the lug-bars provided with the depending lugs 7c. and having the recesses J and the pin j therein entering a corresponding socket in the axle, the boltsj, and

the clip-plates j, substantially as specified.

2. In the running-gear of a vehicle, the combination, with the front axle and the two springs O O, situated, respectively, on oppoice site sides of said axle, of the iug-bars H, proopenings in the arrnsM of the shackle and the 10 vided on their front ends with the doubleeyes of the corresponding springs, substanarmed perforated lugs h for the attachment 1 tially as specified.

0f the thills, and on their rear ends with the In testimony whereofI affix my signature in foot-plates h, and having the depending lugs presence of two witnesses;

K and recesses J, the plates j, the bolts j, en- EBENEZER H. BOOTH. gaged by nuts below the said plates, the swing- Witnesses:

ing shackles L, the pivotal bolts 1 thereof, and I 0. L. KEELER,

the receiving-bolts m, passing through the 8.13. BALL. 

